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Vascular comorbidities are common in multiple sclerosis (MS), but their impact on disease severity is unknown. Vascular comorbidities may contribute to the poorly understood heterogeneity in MS disease severity. Treatment of vascular comorbidities may represent an avenue for treating MS.............

I read your recent column on the treatment of CCSVI (Liberation or placebo effect? MS surgery, Montreal Gazette) and was very surprised at how much you left out about the science of CCSVI. You completely missed the implications................

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Recent preliminary studies have suggested that a phenomenon called Chronic Cerebrospinal Venous Insufficiency (CCSVI), a reported abnormality in blood drainage from the brain and spinal cord, may contribute to nervous system damage in MS..............Read More - http://www.msrc.co.uk/index.cfm/fuseact ... ageid/2954

A group of Canadian patients with multiple sclerosis gathered on Parliament Hill Tuesday to testify how a controversial new treatment has changed their lives, as two Liberal MPs reiterated their call for more research.

The patients included Steve Garvie and Lianne Webb, both of whom were profiled in a recent report from CTV's W5.

Garvie was diagnosed 10 years ago with secondary progressive MS, which left him using a walker most of the time, suffering profound fatigue.

The Multiple Sclerosis Society’s national board election next week is expected to become a battleground as members rally to shut out supporters of a controversial treatment.

An e-mail circulated on Friday urged MS Society supporters to sign up to become members, which will give them voting rights.

And the e-mail asks them to use those votes to maintain the balance of the current board, effectively closing out candidates who want resources increased for research into chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency, a new diagnosis that suggests MS could be caused by iron blockages in the veins.... Read More - http://www.msrc.co.uk/index.cfm/fuseact ... ageid/2954

It's starting! - CCSVI Scanning & Treatment about to start in UK
We are pleased to announce that we have now taken delivery of our Premium Echo Doppler Scanner System. This scanner has been specially designed by Professor Zamboni and his team for the diagnosis of CCSVI.

We are also proud to be the first clinic selected in the UK to have this equipment and we have been told that currently no other establishment in the UK and Ireland is using this sophisticated equipment.... Read More - http://www.msrc.co.uk/index.cfm/fuseact ... ageid/2954

More than 600 multiple sclerosis patients came to Hamilton hoping to hear about a possible cure to what until now has been a mystery disease with few treatment options.

Many left Michelangelo's Event and Conference Centre Saturday frustrated that it will be years before they can "be liberated" as the treatment has been called by Dr. Paolo Zamboni, the Italian surgeon who has pioneered it.

Multiple sclerosis patients and advocates were thwarted in a bid to win two seats on the MS Society of Canada's board on Saturday, positions they sought in order to push for immediate access to an unproven treatment not available in Canada.

Linda Molyneux, whose 22-year-old son has MS, and Brock Winterton, whose wife has the disease, failed to secure enough votes to unseat two of the five board nominees on a slate proposed by the society's governance committee.

Though their nominees prevailed in the election, the society's executive and professional staff took a verbal pounding. Member after member denounced them for failing to use the society's clout to demand immediate access to treatment in Canada for a condition called CCSVI ---- short for chronic celebrospinal venous insufficiency.... Read More - http://www.msrc.co.uk/index.cfm/fuseact ... ageid/2954

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